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I use fastmail and I have created many aliases. Some in order to avoid spam, others to help organize my inbox. One of my aliases was clearly compromised and it
by xwowsersx 4y ago
I use fastmail and I have created many aliases. Some in order to avoid spam, others to help organize my inbox.
One of my aliases was clearly compromised and it is now sent a lot of spam.
Do I simply delete the alias and retire it and update my email with whatever services I care to hear from?
As an aside, I have found the spam filter on Fastmail to be pretty bad. Anyone else have this experience?
- rascul 4y ago> others to help organize my inbox This is a big one for me. Some companies will send me mails from a bunch of different email addresses, sometimes with different domains. So much easier to have one rule for one of my email addresses than a bunch of rules for a bunch of theirs that I don't even know of yet.
- xwowsersx 4y agoRight, exactly. Aliases are unlimited so I err on the side of creating too many rather than having too few.
- microtonal 4y agoAs an aside, I have found the spam filter on Fastmail to be pretty bad. Anyone else have this experience? Same. I love Fastmail, but even after almost a decade of training, spam filtering is quite bad compared to eg. Google Mail.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoI have Fastmail fetch email from my Gmail inbox. Spam that clears Gmail's filter and lands in my inbox, that Fastmail then retreives, ends up in my Fastmail spam folder. Fastmail catches what Gmail does not in my case. Though the reverse has not been tested.
- xwowsersx 4y agoTotally, I think I forgot how big of a deal Gmail's spam filtering was especially when it first came on the scene. I remember now :)